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Word: poohed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in 1896-the year when Adolph S. Ochs bought control of the tired Times for $75,000-ambitious young (33) Hearst picked up the tottering Journal for $180,-ooo. Over at the World (according to the Journal's historians), Joseph Pulitzer pooh-poohed: "No one from the West lasts in New York." Before long such Pulitzer prizes as Arthur Brisbane, S. S. Carvalho and Merrill Goddard were working for Hearst, and inside of a year the Journal's circulation skyrocketed from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Happy Birthday | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

With half a dozen of the University's finest parked in their office across the hall, a new organization was born in Grays Hall yesterday. Pooh--Winnie the Pooh to be exact--is the word for the new group, which laid frothy plans for the propagation of A. A. Milne's nonsense throughout the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pooh Fanciers Start Club; Rueter Chosen As Christopher Robin | 10/11/1946 | See Source »

Behind this back-to-the Green- Forest movement were two Yardlings, Paul Sapir '50 and Robert Ashenhurst '50 Neither of them were sure after yesterday's meeting what the direction of Pooh Club would take, or even whether it would be approved by the Dean's office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pooh Fanciers Start Club; Rueter Chosen As Christopher Robin | 10/11/1946 | See Source »

Cruelty to mice? Says Founder Jackson: Pooh! "Just gives 'em a spot of healthy exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mouse Racing | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...earlier days to make her treat men so naughtily. But even after she has been killed off in an airplane disaster, he never tells the reader what that something was. "She was so b-beautiful," sobs her bereaved maidservant, "and now she's all b-broken up. . . !" Pooh is the word for Chloe Marr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Now We Are Sex | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

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